PFC Alexander Jay Kitcheos
Born: 15 May 1918
Mother: Torn Kitcheos & Frances Wegsyzn-Kitcheos
– appeared parents divorced in the 1920s
Siblings: 2 sisters, 1 brother
Home:
– 1001 Dunlap Avenue – Forest Park
Education:
– Field Stevenson School – Forest Park
– Proviso Township High School
– Class of 1938
Occupation: furniture manufacturing
Inducted:
– 14 February 1942
– U.S. Army
– Fort MacArthur, San Pedro, California
Serial Number: 39019445
Training:
– Camp Toccoa, Georgia
– Fort Benning, Georgia
– paratroop training
– Fort Bragg, North Carolina
Unit: Company F, 502 Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division
Sailed for England: 4 September 1943
Stationed: Chilton Foliat and Denford near Hungerford, Berkshire, England
Engagements:
– D Day – Normandy Invasion
– jumped into drop zone west of Utah Beach
– 6 June 1944
– Battle of Carentan
– Germans countered attacked to take town
– 10 June 1944 – 14 June 1944
Killed in Action:
– Outside of St-Saveur-le-Vicomte – Manche, France
– 27 June 1944
Buried:
– Forest Home Cemetery – Forest Park, Illinois
– Section: 54 Lot: 425
Medals:
– Purple Heart
